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LOOKING FOR CERTAINTY ON THE CHESAPEAKE
It is in the mixture of tenths I have to catch myself from
of hundredths of milimeters in eroding with the grey clay
the differences between the fif- banks of the salty Chesapeake
teen balls on the pool table at the lusty beating of waters,
neatly racked,
I seem to faint into salt air
And the tenths of tenths dizzy with watching high geese
of differences in degrees in and yellow-white swans sil-
the angle of the impacting houette on the winter's daystar,
cue, the waters are long deep blue
blurs,
And their collected
forces at proportionate angles erratic piles of driftwood are
on the perfectly measurable collecting around my feet in
felt rectangular sides, poetically changing hues and
formations, changing with the
Also in proportionate waves and the daystar behind
inter-collisional angles and the geese and broken clouds,
forces, added against the resistence
of the slate and felt compounds If I only had the right
not to mention gravity and ' Woman to marry, this would
some slight air resistence , be the perfect world.
That this time six stripes
~nd two solids were knocked
mto the two inch six oval
pockets, and seven were
left on the table.
D. Wilson
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